Manuel de Regla Mota

Manuel de Regla Mota (21 November 1795-1 May 1864) was President of the Dominican Republic from 26 May to 8 October 1856, succeeding Pedro Santana and preceding Buenaventura Baez.

Biography
Manuel de Regla Mota was born in Bani, Captaincy General of Santo Domingo in 1795, and he became colonel of the national militia of the Dominican Republic after the Dominican War of Independence. He was sent to the border with Haiti as a Colonel, and he rose in the ranks under the caudillo Pedro Santana, becoming the Minister of War and Marine Affairs, as well as serving as Vice-President from 1854 to 1856. In 1856, after the fallout between Santana and the Spanish consul at the time, Santana assumed the presidency, but the Spanish also pressured Mota to resign in favor of Buenaventura Baez. He died in his hometown of Bani in 1864 at the age of 68.